Hello Sam, M-/ will auto complete words that are already in the buffer. Matthew Ozor matthew.ozor@gmail.com On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 9:43 AM, sam jesse wrote: > Hi > I am running > GNU Emacs 22.3.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2008-09-07 on SOFT-MJASON > > under window XP. > > how can I complete a word that I am writing with out typing the rest of it > specially when I wrote it before in the same buffer? > > thx >